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(cid:1) Democracy Past and Future Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History Dick Howard,General Editor Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History Dick Howard,General Editor Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History is a series dedicated to exploring the possibilities for democratic initiative and the revitalization of politics in the wake of the exhaustion of twentieth- century ideological “isms.”By taking a historical approach to the politics of ideas about power,governance,and the just society—and by interpreting historical and contemporary events—this series seeks to foster and illuminate new,emancipative political spaces for human action and choice. PIERRE ROSANVALLON Democracy Past and Future (cid:1) Edited by Samuel Moyn columbia university press new york Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York,Chichester,West Sussex Copyright © 2006Columbia University Press All rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rosanvallon,Pierre,1948– Democracy past and future / Pierre Rosanvallon ;edited by Samuel Moyn. p.cm. A collection of essays from different works including the author’s inau- gural lecture at the Collège de France. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–231–13740–0(cloth :alk.paper) 1.Democracy. 2.Liberalism. 3.Civil society. I.Moyn,Samuel. II.Title. JC423.R6169 2006 321.8—dc22 2005051944 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 References to Internet Web Sites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writ- ing.Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for Web sites that may have expired or changed since this book was prepared. Contents Acknowledgments and Permissions vii Introduction:Antitotalitarianism and After Samuel Moyn 1 Part I.The Study of Politics in History 1. Inaugural Lecture,Collège de France 31 2. Toward a Philosophical History of the Political 59 Part II.The Voluntarist Drive to Unity 3. Revolutionary Democracy 79 4. The Republic of Universal Suffrage 98 Part III.The Allure of Rationalism 5. François Guizot and the Sovereignty of Reason 117 6. Political Rationalism and Democracy in France 127 Part IV.Civil Society 7. The Market,Liberalism,and Anti-Liberalism 147 8. Marx and Civil Society 160 Part V.The Future of Democracy 9. From the Past to the Future of Democracy 189 10. The Transformation of Democracy and the Future of Europe 218 Postscript:Democracy in an Era of Distrust 235 Notes 253 Bibliography of Pierre Rosanvallon’s Principal Publications 283 Index 289 v Acknowledgments and Permissions Chapter 1 was originally published as Leçon inaugurale faite jeudi le 21mars 2002(Paris,2002),and reprinted as Pour une histoire conceptuelle du politique(Paris,2003).© Éditions du Seuil,reprinted by permission. Chapter 2was originally published as “Towards a Philosophical History of the Political,”in Dario Castiglione and Iain Hamp- sher-Monk,eds.,The History of Political Thought in National Context(Cambridge,2002),after a manuscript original and in a translation substantially revised here. © Cambridge Uni- versity Press,reprinted by permission. Chapter 3 was originally published as Le peuple introuvable: Histoire de la représentation démocratique en France (Paris, 1998,2000),35–55,along with a section on the Terror from La démocratie inachevée:Histoire de la souveraineté du peuple en France(Paris,2000,2003),84–89.© Gallimard,reprinted by permission. Chapter 4was originally published in this form as “La république du suffrage universel,”in François Furet et Mona Ozouf,eds., Le Siècle de l’avènement républicain(Paris,1993),translated by Laura Mason as “The Republic of Universal Suffrage,”in Biancamaria Fontana,ed.,The Invention of Modern Republic (Cambridge,1994),192–205.© Cambridge University Press, reprinted by permission. It also essentially coincides with vii viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PERMISSIONS Rosanvallon,Le sacre du citoyen:Histoire du suffrage uni- versel en France(Paris,1992,2001),342–47,364–66,372–87. Chapter 5 was originally published as the editorial matter to François Guizot, Histoire de la civilisation en Europe, ed. Rosanvallon (Paris, 1985). Different parts of the editorial matter—one section of it,entitled “Préface:Le Gramsci de la bourgeoisie,”introduced the book,while another presented a previously unpublished essay by Guizot on sovereignty— have been combined and interwoven in this selection. Chapter 6was originally published as “Rationalisme politique et démocratie en France (XVIIIe–XIXesiècles),”Zinbun,Annals of the Institute of Research in Humanities29(1994):17–32, translated anonymously into English as “Political Rational- ism and Democracy in France in the 18th and 19th Cen- turies,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 28, 6 (November 2002): 687–702, heavily revised here. © Sage Publications, reprinted by permission. Chapter 7was originally published as “Culture politique libérale et réformisme,”Esprit251(March 1999):161–70,and is re- printed by permission of the journal.The text also appeared under the title “Le marché et les trois utopies libérales”as the preface to the new edition of Pierre Rosanvallon,Le capital- isme utopique:Histoire de l’idée de marché(Paris,1999). Chapter 8was originally published as “Marx et la société civile,” Commentaire 4 (Winter 1978–79): 468–77, reprinted as Rosanvallon,Le capitalisme utopique:Critique de l’idéologie économique(Paris,1979),chap.9,“Marx et le retournement du libéralisme.” © Éditions du Seuil, reprinted by permis- sion.This book has since been republished,most recently as Le capitalisme utopique:Histoire de l’idée de marché (Paris, 1999). Chapter 9was originally published as La démocratie inachevée: Histoire de la souveraineté du peuple en France(Paris,2000, 2003),413–50(the last section of chap.11and all of the con- clusion).© Gallimard,reprinted by permission. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PERMISSIONS ix Chapter 10was originally published as “Le déficit démocratique européen,” Esprit 288 (October 2002): 87–100, from re- marks originally delivered in 2001at the Cini Foundation in Venice,and is reprinted by permission of the journal.The text conserves the lecture format;the translation is based,if dis- tantly, on Karsten Sand Iversen’s earlier English-language rendering. The Postscript is an original text.
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